Table 1.

Baseline characteristics

Characteristic	Colistin group (11)	Ampicillin-Sulbactam group (12)	P -value
Age	66.9 ± 9.91	64 ± 23.46	0.70
Male gender	7 (63%)	6 (50%)	0.51
Comorbidity (at least one)	8 (72.72%)	9 (75%)	0.75
Truma	1 (9.09%)	3 (25%)
Diabetes Mellitus	1 (9.09%)	0
Cardiovascular	1 (9.09%)	2 (16.66%)
Neurological diseases	2 (18.18%)	1 (8.33%)
Poly comorbidities	3 (27.27%)	3 (25%)
No comorbidity	3 (27.27%)	3 (25%)
APACHE II (0)	19.9 ± 3.38	18.41 ± 4.12	0.37
CPIS (0)	9 ± 1.24	9.41 ± 1.31	0.45

APACHE II, acute physiologic and chronic health evaluation; CPIS, clinical pulmonary infection score.